Chapter 82 Zhou Hu's Strength
It's one day, three days a day.

A small wooden house next to the entrance of Shengfeng Lingjing.

Uncle Zhao, members of the escort team, and dozens of farmers were having dinner. Every day someone would be sent from each family to deliver meals. Today's meal was rich, with a fish feast prepared in seven different ways.

The two meals were what the farmers looked forward to most every day. Although they did not receive any wages for working for the lord, the two meals a day were guaranteed to contain meat and the portions were large.

In winter, they can’t work at home, so they wish this kind of day could happen every year, so that they can save food for an adult at home.

As for the security issues that were previously worried about, they were easily resolved by the two new captains and deputy captains of the guard team.

The strength of the guard is different from before. During this period, farmers often see members of the guard dragging back ferocious beasts. Those that cannot be eaten are skinned and made into furs, and the rest are used to fertilize the fields.

Occasionally they would hunt some wild game for a snack, and they would also be able to share in the fun.

As for the delicious fish on the table, the guards only tasted a little bit of the freshness and ate until they were half full. After satisfying their appetite, they put down their chopsticks and took out the dried meat of exotic animals that they had smoked and roasted at home and started eating it.

After the meal, everyone took a short break.

Uncle Zhao walked out of the house and asked the newly recruited ten-man guard to start training, while asking the farmers to repair the city wall.

Every day, two members of the old guard team would follow Zhou Hu and Gao Feixue out to hunt exotic beasts, while the rest would guard the Zhou family and practice hard at the same time.

Zhou Hu is very enthusiastic about hunting exotic beasts, even fanatical. All day long he is either hunting exotic beasts or on his way to hunt exotic beasts. He entrusts the training of the new guard team to Uncle Zhao.

Uncle Zhao was helpless, knowing that Zhou Hu was not deliberately playing tricks, but the matter of the strange beast was the most important thing in the territory and could not be delayed, so he had to take on multiple duties.

First, as a steward, he has to take care of the chores of the farmers in the territory, second, he has to train new recruits for the guard team, and third, he has to wait here for the "psychic bird".

However, Uncle Zhao enjoyed it. Apart from practicing swordsmanship every day, he was constantly busy.

He looked up at the daylight which seemed to last an unknown amount of time, took out a piece of colored fluorescent stone, and waited quietly.

From time to time, he would scold and correct the movements practiced by the guard members.

Half an hour later, Zhou Hu and his guards returned with a strange beast. It was becoming increasingly difficult to hunt strange beasts now. If one was unlucky, one could only hunt a low-level strange beast in a day.

Unless he went deep into Xipanling, he did not dare to disobey Zhou Qingshan's order and could only endure it for the time being.

Gao Feixue's strength, which he has demonstrated in the fog over the past few days, has long been recognized by the guard team, and he has now been promoted to deputy captain of the guard team.

Since Mo Yanqiu is not here, Gao Feixue will be in charge of guarding this place.

That day, when she entered the fog, she finally witnessed Zhou Hu's terrifying strength. Almost at the moment the strange beast appeared, she had just raised her weapon and the battle was over.

Zhou Hu shot out like a cannonball and grabbed the strange beast's neck with one hand as easily as grabbing a chicken.

What’s even more exaggerated is yet to come.

The next day, they had little harvest throughout the morning, catching only three common wild beasts. When they were preparing to go home, they were suddenly attacked by a wolf-like first-level beast. She opened her mouth and was about to make a sound to attract Mo Yanqiu to come to support her,

The next moment, Zhou Hu rushed forward, swung the "Stone Lock Hammer" and smashed it dozens of times, as if rocks were collapsing, and the wolf-like beast was instantly knocked unconscious.

Ten breaths later, Zhou Hu came back carrying a huge wolf corpse and called the guards to return to the territory.

Only then did Gao Feixue come to his senses. Seeing this violent scene, his face was filled with horror.

She opened her mouth in surprise, unable to close it for a long time, and her mind went blank.

You know, a first-level alien beast in the fog is much stronger than a warrior at the level of a strongman. Last time, it took the combined efforts of three of them to kill a first-level alien beast. Even if this giant wolf is slightly weaker than the Gu Diao, it is not something that one person can deal with.

Moreover, in such a short period of time, a magical power could actually make Zhou Hu so powerful.

Gao Feixue was becoming more and more excited about Zhou Qingshan's next opportunity to demonstrate his extraordinary skills.

After seeing the corpse of the giant wolf and seeing that Zhou Hu was unharmed, Mo Yanqiu felt relieved and took the wolf corpse back to the yard to calm his mind.

Today, Gao Feixue no longer entered the fog, but just watched Zhou Hu hunt exotic beasts.

Uncle Zhao had sharp eyes and recognized the strange beast in Zhou Hu's hand. He skillfully skinned the beast, opened its belly to find its strange organs, and took them out. Most of these things would be taken out and treasured before sacrifice.

Zhou Qingshan had previously conducted some tests and discovered that peeling the skin would not affect the output of the "essence", so he ordered the guards to skin the inedible beasts and then send them to fertilize the fields.

If these exotic animal furs and gifted organs fall into the hands of the Chamber of Commerce, they can be sold for a high price. After cleaning up and asking someone to send the exotic animals to the Zhou family, Uncle Zhao continued to wait. Not long after, the colored fluorescent stone in his hand suddenly lit up with a faint light.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, a rainbow light broke through the fog, passed over the city wall, and landed directly on Uncle Zhao's shoulder.

Uncle Zhao looked closely and saw a cloud creature that looked like a pigeon. The bird seemed to be condensed from the lightest morning mist, and the edges of its wings and tail showed a soft gradient color, from light transparency to an almost invisible mist.

Its body structure is outlined by subtle air flow lines that sway gently in the air like a flowing ink painting drawn in the air.

The body will refract a faint rainbow light in the sunlight, giving people a dreamy feeling.

At this time, the cloud creature was not afraid of strangers and moved closer, looking at Uncle Zhao in confusion. It didn't know why its nest fell on this human.

"Xiao Qi?" Uncle Zhao called out carefully.

"Coo coo." The cloud pigeon Xiaoqi nodded in a very human way.

"Xiao Qi, Envoy Sun is seriously injured. Please return to Black Cloud City immediately and..."

After Uncle Zhao confirmed his identity, he immediately took out a piece of spirit stone fragment and told Xiao Qi about his discovery of the rabbit scout and Sun Wandong's serious injury.

Although he said he was listening, Uncle Zhao actually asked the Psychic Bird Seventeen to copy each word on the bamboo slips.

After training, the "psychic bird" can understand human speech. However, its body is insubstantial, it cannot carry objects, and it cannot speak human words. The reason why it can become a messenger is that its cloud body can change at will and record words.

I saw Seventeen's misty body constantly changing its shape in the air. Every time Uncle Zhao said a word, it formed a word.

Then he changed the next word, and repeated this process until all the words were transformed. Afterwards, Seventeen manifested a complete row of words in mid-air, asking Uncle Zhao to confirm whether there were any mistakes.

Uncle Zhao checked it carefully, found no problem, nodded, and finally said:
"Please, in your capacity as Envoy Sun, send this letter to the Black Cloud City Inspection Department on first-class red alert."

When Xiao Qi heard this, his expression froze. He swallowed the broken pieces of the spirit stone in one gulp, and suddenly turned into a rainbow light, heading towards the direction of Black Cloud City.

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Inner city of Black Cloud City.

The huge tree canopy covers the sky, like a green canopy.

A quaint attic in the tree.

Inside the attic, there were rows of colorful fluorescent stones, which sparkled in the dim light.

A white-haired old man in a plain robe was carefully wiping the colorful fluorescent stones.

As he moved, spirit pigeons gradually appeared on the fluorescent stone. The room was suddenly filled with colorful light, accompanied by the clear calls of "coo coo coo".

The old man's face was filled with a kind smile. He gently took out a handful of spirit stone fragments from his arms and scattered them into the air as if feeding a pet.

The spirit pigeons flew up one after another, turning into rainbow lights, vying for these glittering fragments. Their figures shuttled through the light and shadow, entangled with each other, as if they were playing.

"Goooooooooooo!!"

At this moment, a brilliant rainbow light streaked across the sky like a meteor, rushing over, and finally landed in this quaint attic. The atmosphere in the room was suddenly interrupted by a rapid and harsh sound.

The psychic birds seemed to sense some ominous sign and stopped playing. They all turned their eyes to the source of the rainbow light.

"Xiao Qi, why did you return in such a hurry? You even spent all your energy to perform secret techniques. What urgent matter is this?" The old man frowned.

Xiao Qi's figure slowly rose in the rainbow light. It spun gracefully in the air and eventually transformed into a piece of text shrouded in mist.

These cloud-like words float in the air, flashing a faint light.

The old man raised his head, his eyes sharp as torches, and began to read the misty text carefully. As he read deeper, his expression gradually became solemn, and the light in his eyes became deeper and deeper.

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(End of this chapter)